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Baked Spice

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    Baked Spice reacted to aezakmi in Can I move windows 10 to my ssd? without loosing files   
    You can do it but first there are some steps. Also, the SSD has to be empty
     
    1. Head to Disk Management in win and select "shrink volume" in your HDD partition, and create a new 580GB volume (that's the free space)
    2. Move everything that's not part of the OS to that new partition, libraries included (music, pictures, documents, etc, you can restore them later) try to move large folders like games or movies too.
    3. go back into disk management and now shrink the partition where Windows is installed to be smaller than your SSD (let's say 64GB?)
    4. format the SSD as NTFS and also move the files you have there to the 580GB partition in the HDD, create a folder named ssd or something, rename "this pc" to "windows" or something you know
    5. download and set up a bootable Clonezilla install (there's a guide on their site on how to do this)
    6. boot the computer to clonezilla and select the "device-device" mode and then "part_to_local_part" clone, it'll ask you to select the SOURCE partition, select the one that has windows on it, then the TARGET partition, select your SSD there, confirm everything and let it work, it might take a while (1hr)
     
    7. if everything worked correctly you'll have two identical windows installs and the PC won't be able to boot, do this, after clonezilla says the cloning was successfully finished turn it off and unplug your HDD data cable (not power), this way it'll boot from the SSD now
    8. after windows loads, plug the HDD cable you removed so the drive works
    9. go back into disk management and DELETE the volume containing windows in the HDD, you'll end up with even more empty space you can use to resize your other 580GB partition
    10. profit
     
    hope it works
    to everyone else: never use "imaging" programs that run under windows, they're highly unstable and tend to fail or even destroy the partition table rendering the hard drive useless, using clonezilla properly is a lot safer, not to mention most of these programs like acronis or macrum have stupid speed or partition/drive limits that you can only lift by paying ridiculous amounts of money (hundreds or even thousands of dollars in case of "workstation" versions) the companies behind them just take advantage of novice users that are looking to clone a hard drive, real IT guys rely on different standalone utilities to create drive images or clone partitions/drives, clonezilla is one of them
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